Washington Irving Quotes

Inequality is on the rise.

What does peace mean in a world in which the combined wealth of the world's 587 billionaires exceeds the combined gross domestic product of the world's 135 poorest countries?

The world is hugely unequal.

Billions of people are being left behind by economic growth.

Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast.

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.

The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

Poverty is unnecessary.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

Poverty is often off the beaten track. It always has been.

Full stomachs don't believe empty ones.

The hungry and the full sing not one song.

Where the conditions to which material progress everywhere tends are most fully realized, we find the deepest poverty .... Amid the greatest accumulations of wealth, men die of starvation, and puny infants suckle dry breasts.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

Globalization has down sides because it leaves so many people behind.

Unequal wealth distribution is a risk factor for inequality that must be attacked by policies.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

There is an increase in inequality in the early stages of development.